JPP candidate banking on divine intervention to unseat Fayval Williams
Published:Monday | August 18, 2025 | 4:22 PM
Jamaica Progressive Party (JPP) candidate for St Andrew Eastern Carl Cargill has acknowledged that it may take divine intervention for him to unseat incumbent Member of Parliament Fayval Williams.
“I’m trusting God, that’s all I have to say,” Cargill told The Gleaner when asked about his chances of winning the constituency.
He was one of three candidates nominated at Mona High School on Monday to contest the September 3 general election for the constituency.
The others are Williams, representing the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), and Patricia Duncan Sutherland, who will be representing the main opposition People’s National Party (PNP).
Cargill believes that after years of “back and forth” between the JLP and the PNP, the time has come for Jamaica to forge a new path.
“A different direction is needed, young blood, new faces, people who are not regular politicians and also people who are about the people,” he said.
He described the JPP as compassionate organisation that will work with the people.
“So we are saying to the Jamaican people ‘you have an option’,” Cargill said.
- Livern Barrett
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